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Gross.
Associated Press
NEW YORK -- For the fifth straight year, it was a victory Takeru Kobayashi could truly relish.
Kobayashi, 27, captured the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest Monday, gobbling a nauseating 49 dogs in 12 minutes -- but missing his own world record of 53½, set at last year's July Fourth compe ion.
The win means the coveted Mus Yellow Belt will return to Japan for the ninth year out of the past 10. New Jersey's Steve Keiner, who won in 1999, is the only American to capture the le in the past decade.
Kobayashi, of Nagano, stands 5 feet 7 inches and weighs just 144 pounds.
The runner-up was Sonya Thomas of Alexandria, Va. -- known as The Black Widow on the compe ive-eating circuit -- who set an American record by downing 37 hot dogs in the same 12 minutes.
Thomas, who manages a Burger King restaurant, separates the hot dog from the bun and eats them separately. She dips the bun in water to make it easier to swallow with less chewing.
"I want to be No. 1 in the world, so I practice," she told CNN shortly after the contest. "I'm working on more speed."
She said she was planning a light dinner -- maybe a salad.
"My stomach doesn't hurt," she said, "but my jaw is tired."
Thomas, who weighs a remarkable 105 pounds, is a rising speed-eating star. Last December in Atlantic City, N.J., she finished off 89 meatballs -- about six pounds' worth -- in 12 minutes. And in August, she captured a lobster-eating contest in Maine by consuming 38 of the creatures in 12 minutes.
The hot dog contest takes place outside the original Nathan's in Coney Island. The contest was first held there in 1916.
Gross.
The dude from The Usual Suspects?
Why would we want to do that???
I don't see how they have a compe ion for this kind of crap, it's nothing to brag about.
I'm sure that lady of 144 pounds needed all those 49 dogs....at least give them to poor people or something...
If the compe ion is free I wouldn't mind fasting for the day and enter just to eat about 7-10 hot dogs casually and slowly with a nice king size Coke.
E20, you wouldn't be able to enter lmao. You have to be in eating compe ions year round and win some to be in that hot dog eating contest. It is a contest not just some thing some person to be there since they're hungry. You win money for that .
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